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...doubts, although nobody dared to put them into print because Burt was so powerful." In fact, he was powerful enough to see his ideas on heredity and intelligence translated into educational policy. As a government adviser in the 1940s, he played a prominent role in setting up the three-tier British school system that pigeonholed students on the basis of an IQ test given at age eleven...
...from being a mere appendage to the winning ticket, Walter Frederick Mondale turned out to be a considerable asset. With unflagging energy and unfailing good humor-even when his staff steered him to factory gates after shifts had changed-Mondale effectively worked the northern tier of the U.S. His assignment was to build bridges between Jimmy Carter and the sizable Democratic blocs that did not know the Georgian well: ethnics, labor, liberals...
...black delegations contend that all details for the transfer of power are up for negotiation, Smith insists that he came to Geneva solely to fill in the details of the so-called Kissinger plan, announced last September. According to Smith, Kissinger's scheme would set up a two-tier interim government in which whites would share power with blacks but would remain dominant during the changeover (TIME cover...
...spirit of give and take-only to take-take our country!" exclaimed the diminutive Bishop Muzorewa, perhaps Rhodesia's most popular black politician. Like the other black leaders, he demanded that the transition period be cut to one year and that in place of the appointive two-tier interim government there be a popularly elected Prime Minister and a Cabinet, with seats distributed according to the outcome of the election. Smith was extraordinarily brief, merely repeating his well-known views that he expected the conference to get on with the business of ratifying the Kissinger package...
Houn said he will only agree to such a meeting "when they admit that there is a grievance," and added that he may seek a hearing before the 20-member HSA board of trustees, the final tier in the company's internal grievance mechanism...